How to Correct a Mistake

All of us have made mistakes. Most of us know what mending a fence means. Its kind of an old saying but I am pretty sure that all of us have made the mistake of hurting someone's feelings because of our own selfish desires. If you think that you have never hurt someone's feelings or maybe are not mature enough to realize that you have. You may have issues. Even as a child I knew when I hurt some ones feelings. I also knew that there were times that my did it on purpose. But I was a child and even then I knew better.

The best way to mend a fence is to not break it in the first place. If you call yourself an adult you should be aware of every word that comes out of your mouth. You should also realize the effect that it has on other people. You can go around hurting peoples feelings all day if you want to. You may even think that its funny, but it really isn't. No matter what you think of another person you really dont have the right to disrespect people. While some people will say that other people deserve disrespect because they are disrespectful to themselves and other people on purpose. I believe it really isn't true. When I was in the Army we had a Colonel that hated everyone, when in fact she was really a nice lady. But everybody hated her. The Army is famous for not delivering in the USA. Just look at our veterans and that will give you a clue. Well on that note, our Colonel told us that only 50% of the class would not graduate. We were sort of distressed because we were all in the top of our class. We couldn't figure out why the Army would spend 1000s of dollars training us to work in a certain field and guarantee us a tour of duty station just to flunk us and send us to the front lines. It just didn't make sense to us.

We wanted to understand and we also wanted to graduate. We tried to be nice to the Colonel and tried to figure out how we could all graduate. We treated her like gold. We didn't have any fences to mend with her. We never broke the fence so we never had to mend it. We all graduated and I am sure the Colonel got into trouble. If you have to mend a fence its important to treat people like you would want to be treated. Usually if you do that both parties will be forgiving and understanding. Its is pretty simple but it takes character. I think you are up to it.